Dear friends,
After a short pause, I am glad to return to my blog series on poverty reduction. Sometimes, taking a step back gives clarity on how best to move forward. From now, I will begin sharing each chapter of the Poverty Reduction Knowledge Portal in blog form. These shorter blogs will make the ideas on reducing poverty more accessible, while still linking to the full chapters for those who wish to explore further.
This week’s post is a transition piece — a bridge between what has been shared and what is to come. I hope you’ll take a moment to read it, and I warmly invite your comments and thoughts. Together, we can keep this conversation on poverty reduction alive and growing.
Sometimes, even the best-laid plans in poverty reduction need a pause. Over the past weeks, I had intended to share the next part of this series on reducing poverty. Yet, life and work have their own rhythm, and I found myself taking a short break before resuming.
This pause has given me time to reflect on how best to continue the conversation on poverty reduction. One idea I am excited about is to bring each rewritten chapter of my larger work into a blog format. This way, the insights and lessons on reducing poverty will be available to many more people — not just those who can visit the full portal.
Each blog will offer a short, accessible version of the ideas, while the full chapters will remain available on the portal for those who want to go deeper. Every post will carry a link, so readers who are keen to explore more about reducing poverty can read, comment, and share directly.
In this way, the blog and the portal will complement one another: the blog providing an entry point into the practical and human side of poverty reduction, and the portal offering the wider context.
The journey continues here. The next blog will begin this new approach — focusing first on communication and the Tamil Nadu story — and then moving step by step into broader reflections on reducing poverty and the lessons we can learn from real experiences.
Thank you for your patience and for staying with me on this journey toward poverty reduction. The best is just ahead.
Rajaratnam Abel 